Welcome at the site of Wilderness Acupuncture

Wilderness Acupuncture provides a unique opportunity to learn how to bring Taoist, wilderness-based 5-element acupuncture into your practice and your life. Choose from year-long educational programs in Portland, Oregon, multi-day wilderness trips in Oregon or Glacier Bay, Alaska or weekend & 10-day clinical symposiums available internationally.

This site will be updated frequently to provide the most current information on trips and seminars. We will be sharing 
new insights on the 5 elements and spirit of the points as well as posting articles, audios, pictures, blogs and a 
calendar. Enjoy!

Mineral ~ Metal

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2013-04-25 04:24
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post from David Ford, April 22th, Auckland, New Zealand

Among 5ELEMENT Acupunctures myriad gifts, is a DEEP understanding of the powerful influences that seasonal changes impose upon ALL of our exterior & interior lives; animal & human; business cycles; national character; global village interactions.

Flying into Portland OREGON

Submitted by David on Sun, 2012-03-25 16:27
Well hello far flung friends -:), ? , I'm not sure how you all find the time to "spend" so much time in face land ! In between fun runs for Parliament; grubbing the Scotch & Nodding thistles on my brother Jerrys farm @ Foxdown; group writing, editing, & rewriting a call for a NZ national "mission critical~direction change away from the church of GDP" document; & organizing transitions on our land, I don't seem to have time for face planting !!

5 Element Congress, Portland, May 3-6 2012

Roots & Branches: 
Deepening the Five Element Acupuncture Conversation
May 3-6, 2012
Still Meadow Retreat Center
(25 minutes east of Portland)

A gathering of classical scholars and skilled practitioners presenting:

Study Five Element Acupuncture in Nature! - Alaska Trip

Date: 
Thu, 2011-08-11 09:00 - Sun, 2011-08-21 17:00

Alaska Trip: Travel to Glacier Bay, AK and then journey 14 miles across the ocean to a cabin on Lemesurier Island. There you will watch the sea lions swim by during the day and listen to the whales playing in the kelp beds in the morning. Throughout the day you will go on hikes around the island and learn about the elements from the comfort of this rustic cabin. This is a trip of a lifetime and should not be missed!
For the August Trips you will need to fly to Gustavus, AK (Alaska Airlines can get you there)

Study Five Element Acupuncture in Nature! - Rafting trip in Oregon

Date: 
Mon, 2011-06-27 09:00 - Thu, 2011-06-30 17:00

Study Five-Element Acupuncture in Nature!

Join David Ford, L.Ac. in Alaska or Oregon and learn about this medicine immersed in the wilderness and glean valuable insights from his 38 years living this medicine.

Our fingers in the dike

Submitted by David on Tue, 2011-04-26 17:18

In my 38th year in 5 ELEMENT Acupuncture and Natural Medicine I find myself reflecting on and meditating deeply into the state of our profession at this juncture in history. We should all be very proud of the amazing accomplishments, collective efforts, and all of our personal contributions, in all of the western nations.

And speaking of Spring !

Submitted by David on Tue, 2011-04-12 02:40

In between the slow key strokes of my ludite typing skills, ‘seat’ plastered to chair, I have been taking the time during the brief ‘sunny sucker holes’ punctuating the  wetness of a NW coast ‘climate change’ Spring, to go for brisk walks with the purpose of ‘learning and deepening’ with the Elemental Masters as we leave Winter and enter into the Awakened flourishing of Spring.

Alaska, Coming to Grips with the Tao

Submitted by David on Fri, 2010-07-23 17:23
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At 30,00 feet over the stunning coast range of Alaska, one’s life challenges are rapidly brought into perspective! My or ‘our’ ‘big’ problems pail in comparison to this vast expanse of Fiords, Rock, Ice & Flora that peaks up through South East Alaska’s famous cloud blanket. A spirit of Freedom pervades space and time. The Ancient Tao prevails.

Swimming in Streams

Submitted by David on Wed, 2010-07-14 15:43

Last weekend the lovely Alysia, Liam and David Anderson went camping in Oregon to see if the young Liam could handle a four day Five Element wilderness acupuncture class the following weekend. Alysia’s curious question was, “What point symbolizes a small stream softly bubbling toward the ocean amidst the most beautiful tall tree forest?”  

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